Jon
Kennedy, Nanty Glo Home Page webmaster and owner, is a former teen and campus
minister. He began his journalism career as teen columnist for the Nanty Glo Journal
and its sister weekly newspapers from 1957 to '62 and became the Journal's
third editor in 1962 at age 20. He has edited other newspapers and magazines,
and more recently, webzines, ever since. His articles have appeared in the Los
Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain-Dealer, Christianity
Today, and many other publications. His Jonals appear here on Mondays, Wednesdays,
and Fridays.

Blowing
my horn, and a press release

Since Judy
Rose has taken the day off I've decided to use the opportunity to trumpet the
newest innovation on the Home Page, a complete reversible and left-navigation-frame
sequential-numbered index of the Jonal entries in this department since January
2001. I introduced a less versatile version of the index in my Christmas letter
in December but since then have added a lot of bells and whistles to make it an
index for all seasons. There are still some additional changes coming, but I think
in its current state it will give anyone an easy tour of what I've described as
the major component of my writer's lifework. Try it; I think you'll like it.

And
to take up a little more of your coffee-time reading this morning, I'll expand
this page by throwing in a press release I received on Monday. I've not used a
press release in this way in this department but this one relates to a number
of topics we've considered here in the past, and I thought it might inspire some
reflection and maybe, I hope, some list conversation.

On the heels of the firestorm brewing
over the recent "Sponge Bob" controversy (really known as the We Are Family Foundation
controversy,) PBS pulls the plug over a public outcry on a controversial episode
of "Postcards from Buster." The children's cartoon/episode "Sugartime!" takes
place in Vermont, featuring the families of two lesbian couples.

Even though
PBS has officially pulled the episode, several stations - including those in Boston,
New York and San Francisco - are being defiant and will air the show anyway.

The
Simpsons cartoon on FOX (geared more toward an adult audience) also decided to
join the bandwagon to catch some of the free media publicity. Homer will be featured
in an episode in February involving a same-sex marriage.

"Over the years,
we have seen an attack via the media from those wishing to force a controversial
lifestyle upon a nation divided on the issue of homosexuality. But never before
have we seen these individuals use the power of the airwaves to go after our most
innocent - America's children. Leave them alone - our kid's are off base, " said
Stephen Bennett.

Bennett was recently scheduled to debate the two lesbians
featured in the "Postcards from Buster" episode on ABC's Good Morning America
with Diane Sawyer. However, at the last minute, the producers cancelled Bennett's
appearance because they said among other "logistics," the lesbians felt "uncomfortable"
with Bennett being in the studio.

Bennett is a former homosexual - now
married eleven years to his wife and the father of their two children.

The
O'Reilly Factor - known for being fair and balanced and letting the "viewers decide"
- recently presented only one side of the controversial We Are Family Foundation's
new DVD project with Nile Rogers. Rogers' organization removed much of the pro-homosexual
material and mislead O'Reilly about asking people (children) to sign a Tolerance
Pledge on-line. Bennett downloaded most of the removed content before it "disappeared."

Rogers has threatened the American Family Association with a possible lawsuit
claiming defamation.

"This is just the beginning of a new wave of homosexuals
trying to force their acceptance upon a nation morally divided - by going after
our children via childrens' programming.

Yet I stand amazed at how swift
the media responded to these stories. I applaud them for raising public awareness
of these controversial issues - even if some did so with a bias. Americans - no
matter where they stand on this issue - agree when it comes to the children, will
do anything to protect their little ones when necessary," said Bennett.

*Bennett
will be live on the nationally syndicated Bloomberg Radio today at 11:15 am EST
discussing this story.)

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Stephen Bennett is Executive
Director and Founder of Stephen Bennett Ministries in CT - a pro-family organization
advocating for the traditional family, the protection of children and proclaiming
the truth about homosexuality.

He is a passionate, sought after national
speaker on homosexuality and the "gay" agenda and is featured frequently on most
of the major networks and cable news programs including CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX
NEWS and others.

Stephen frequently speaks -- when called upon -- as a
National Spokesperson for Concerned Women in America in Washington, D.C. and he
is the Special Issues Editor on Homosexuality for the American Family Association.

Classic Hollywood
Squares, 8

If you remember
The Original Hollywood Squares and its comics, this will bring a tear to your
eyes. These great questions and answers are from the days when "Hollywood Squares"
game show responses were spontaneous! Peter Marshall was the host asking the questions,
of course.

Q.
If you were pregnant for two years, what would you give birth to?

A.
Paul Lynde: Whatever it is, it would never be afraid of the dark.

Q.
According to Ann Landers, is there anything wrong with getting into the habit
of kissing a lot of people?

A.
Charley Weaver: It got me out of the army.

Thought
for today

Never
continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll
like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical
health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

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